Chapter 1286: 1286
On the mountain where Mo Ni had died .
The area was extraordinarily peaceful . Since the battle between Bai Yunfei and Zhang Zhenshan happened within the Interdimensional Phantasm, the landscape was calm and untouched as if nothing had happened to begin with .
Then, somewhere in the sky, a part of space opened up to allow two figures to walk through .
One of the two was a white-haired elder as long-haired as he was frail . The other man next to him was probably in his fifties at most, though he looked far more mournful than the first . Not only was his body bloodied, but his right arm was cut off at the shoulder so that only a stump remained . Even now, the stump had a small flow of blood dripping from it .
This one-armed man was none other than the headmaster of the Soul Refining School, Nether! And the elder beside him was the Late-stage Soul Emperor who carried him away .
It was with vigilance that the two scanned the area when they arrived . Upon noticing no danger, Nether started for a certain cave, “He’s over there . . . Mo Ni is in that cave…”
The eyes of the elder narrowed in on the cave . Looking at it for a moment, the elder let out a gasp, “Why can I not sense Mo Ni’s aura!?”
“Eh?” It was Nether’s turn to be surprised . Scanning the cave as well, Nether’s face soon turned deathly-white upon processing the results .
The interior of the cave was soon made immediately clear to them when they sent their soulsenses into the cave .
And that was when they both took notice of the lone corpse on the ground .
“No!!”
Nether howled in extreme despair . He dashed toward the cave without waiting for the elder .
Both of the soul refiners came careening into the cave, only to cry out again with shock at the true sight of Mo Ni’s corpse .
“My son!!”
Nether wailed in grief . As if the life had been sucked out from him, Nether’s person slackened and seemingly aged by several years . Not even a Soul Emperor could weather such an emotional blow like this one .
He couldn’t believe it . His son, dead? Did this corpse in front of him truly belong to his child? But that dark-green bracelet, the one on its right wrist . He knew that bracelet . He recognized it . This was truly his son .
The bracelet was a soulbound armament of Nether . It wasn’t particularly strong, but it was one he used for many years before handing it over to Mo Ni . If anything were to happen to Mo Ni, Nether could use the bracelet as a way to home in on his son .
He had Mo Ni’s soul armament in a space ring, but that ring had been on his right hand . And that hand had been…lost when it was severed back at the Fate School . Consequentially, he had no idea that Mo Ni was dead yet . It was only when he managed to escape with the elder that the two thought about finding him, only to find Mo Ni’s corpse…
It was a devastating blow to his heart . Initially, Nether had been happy to sense his soul armament here in this cave since that meant Mo Ni had managed to escape the massacre . But then to see his son dead on the ground? The world itself was crashing down all around him now .
The scene was enough to make any father go mad with grief .
“Who…who was it!! Who killed my child! I’ll kill them! I’ll kill them!!”
With how Nether raged and frothed at the mouth, he looked more like a madman than a Soul Emperor . Both his eyes were turning red with his grief and his voice was already cracking up due to his wailing .
“Headmaster…” The elder opened his mouth to try and calm Nether down, but he found himself unable to do so . Who could possibly remain calm at the sight of their dead child!?
Giving up on the effort, the elder turned his attention back to the corpse . “What’s this?” He murmured, “Headmaster! I…I can see the signs of the Bloodsoul Dark Artes! Mo Ni…he died because of it!!”
“What?!” Nether froze up at once, his brain restarting itself to process this new information . Inspecting his son’s corpse, Nether quickly verified the truth with renewed anger .
There was no one else more familiar with the Bloodsoul Dark Artes than him . It took only a second for him to detect the signs and determine how Mo Ni had died .
“Could it be Gui Nu?! But how!?”
“Gui Nu! Gui Nu!! Ahhh!!! Why has it…how did it come to this?!”
Nether trembled from head to toe with furious grief . He couldn’t understand how Mo Ni’s own ‘puppet’ had killed him!
The answer was unfathomable to the elder as well . “Headmaster,” He spoke, “it wouldn’t be wise to remain here, we sh—watch out!!”
Crying out loud in shock, the elder exploded with soulforce to push Nether to one side while he launched himself to the other .
“Whoosh!!”
It all happened too fast for the elder . Though he managed to act quickly, it wasn’t quick enough!
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